A man sentenced to a year in prison for his role in a Long Island mortgage fraud was not deprived of a fair jury trial because the jurors were allowed to take copies of the indictment home during deliberations, a federal appellate panel ruled yesterday.
Judge Gerard Lynch (See Profile), writing for a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held in United States v. Esso, 11-570, that the defendant, George Esso, had not been deprived of his constitutional rights, since the jurors who convicted him had been given specific instructions not to show the indictment to anyone else or to use it for independent research. The other panel members were Judges John Walker (See Profile) and Christopher Droney (See Profile).
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